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package io.jmix.flowui.component;

import com.vaadin.flow.component.Component;

import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;

/**
 * A strategy for creating FlowUi components by {@link UiComponentsGenerator}.
 */
public interface ComponentGenerationStrategy {

    /**
     * Creates a component according to the given {@link ComponentGenerationContext}.
     * If the strategy is not applicable to the given context it should return null value.
     *
     * @param context the context instance
     * @return created component
     */
    @Nullable
    Component createComponent(ComponentGenerationContext context);
}
